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United States Patent | 5,701,251 |
Yoshimura | December 23, 1997 |
A blank-figure constructing method for sheet metal work, wherein a cutting passage planned to sequentially cut a plurality of desired blanks from a sheet material is determined, utilizing a multiple figure composed of the figures of the plurality of blanks to be obtained, in the multiple figure of which the adjacent line segments of the single blank figures are combined. This method is that if the multiple figure has an even number of, four or more odd vertices at each of which an odd number of internal and external line segments of the multiple figure meet, an auxiliary line is drawn outside the multiple figure, connecting any two of the odd vertices on the outline of the multiple figure to make the total number of odd vertices be two or zero so that the cutting passage, which passes through all the internal, external line segments and auxiliary line of the multiple figure, can be determined.
Inventors: | Yoshimura; Yukio (Ishikawa, JP) |
Assignee: | Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho (Tokyo, JP) |
Appl. No.: | 564283 |
Filed: | December 29, 1995 |
PCT Filed: | June 24, 1994 |
PCT NO: | PCT/JP94/01026 |
371 Date: | December 29, 1995 |
102(e) Date: | December 29, 1995 |
PCT PUB.NO.: | WO95/04315 |
PCT PUB. Date: | February 9, 1995 |
Jul 30, 1993[JP] | 5-190508 |
Current U.S. Class: | 700/182; 83/13; 83/39; 83/40; 83/49; 83/55; 83/75.5; 345/418; 345/441; 345/442; 345/443; 700/117; 700/122; 700/167; 700/171; 700/187 |
Intern'l Class: | G06F 017/50; G06F 019/00; 474.28; 474.29; 474.09 |
Field of Search: | 364/474.24,474.25-474.26,468.01,468.24,469.01,474.01,474.08,474.13,474.16 83/13,34-35,39-40,49,52,55-56,75.5,797,798 395/118,133-135,141-143 |
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